Dictionary  Me•noe•ce•usPronunciation: (mu-nē'sē-us, -syOOs), [key] —n. Class. Myth. 1. a descendant of the Sparti and the father of Jocasta and Creon, who sacrificed himself to end a plague in Thebes. 2. the son of Creon of Thebes, who took his own life because of the prophecy that the Seven against Thebes would fail only if a descendant of the Sparti sacrificed himself. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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